Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.

And rufus

Bible References

They compel

Matthew 27:32
And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, named Simon: him they compelled to bear his cross.
Luke 23:26
And as they led him away, they caught one Simon of Cyrene, coming out of the field: And on him laid they the cross to bear it after Jesus.

A cyrenian

Acts 2:10
Phrigia, Pamphylia, and of Egypt, and of the parts of Libya, which is beside Cyrene; And strangers of Rome;
Acts 6:9
Then there arose certain of the Synagogue, which are called Libertines, and Cyrenians, and of Alexandria, and of Cilicia, and of Asia: and disputed with Stephen.
Acts 11:20
Some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which when they were come into Antioch, spake unto the Greeks, and preached the Lord Jesus.
Acts 13:1
There were at Antioch, in the congregation, certain prophets and teachers: as Barnabas and Symeon called Niger; And Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, Herod the tetrarch's nurse-fellow, and Saul.

And rufus

Romans 16:13
Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.

To bear

Luke 14:27
And whosoever bear not his cross, and come after me cannot be my disciple.
John 15:18
"If the world hate you, ye know that he hated me before he hated you.